Io e la scuola»: percezione di ansia e benessere degli studenti in ambiente scolastico

«ME AND THE SCHOOL»: STUDENT PERCEPTION OF ANXIETY AND WELL-BEING IN THE SCHOOL CONTEXT Abstract This research falls within the realm of studies focusing on the well-being and discomfort conditions experienced by students in school. Building on prior research and in collaboration with students and the head of a Roman high school, we developed a questionnaire partially based on models derived from previous studies (Antonova, 2016; Stanzione, 2017; du Mérac, Livi, & Lucisano, 2020; Livi et al., 2023) and partly tailored to the specific context of the school. The questionnaire was subsequently administered in two high schools in the Lazio region, gathering responses from a sample of 871 students. Factorial and scale analyses were conducted on the collected data to reveal the construct’s underlying structure and assess its reliability. The construct encompasses 8 scales: Consideration, Sense of Protection, Environment, Teacher Evaluation, Active Teaching, Class Cohesion, General Anxiety, and Evaluation Anxiety, all of which exhibit excellent factor loadings and high levels of internal consistency, with Cronbach’s alpha ranging from .842 to .935. The distribution of scores on these scales paints a compelling picture, and the Anova analyses highlight significant differences among the schools.